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• Red Hat builds on its open source storage portfolio

  Red Hat continues to make inroads into the enterprise storage software market, improving two of its core storage technologies and striking partnerships with key IT system resellers.

• SanDisk enters the auto industry, sets sights on wearables

  SanDisk today announced its first automotive grade NAND flash devices for next-generation 'connected cars' and auto infotainment systems.

• Dell bundles backup software, eyes further development

  Dell is organizing the backup software products that it has acquired in the past two years into a coherent portfolio, bundling three of its storage software products into a single package to simplify licensing for the enterprise.

• EMC acquires TwinStrata to push corporate data into the cloud

  Storage vendor EMC has scooped up cloud storage management company TwinStrata, the companies announced Tuesday.

• Dell launches virtual storage accelerator, aims to boost SAN performance

  Dell released a new virtualized storage accelerator appliance called Fluid Cache for SAN on Tuesday, designed to help customers keep data-intensive applications working quickly under load.

• IBM lays plans to be a cloud storage broker

  IBM is developing software that will allow organizations to use multiple cloud storage services interchangeably, reducing dependence on any single cloud vendor and ensuring that data remains available even during service outages.

• Backup starts to scale out along with storage, data growth

  Backup and recovery is starting to get some of the same capabilities as primary storage systems to handle the rising floods of data with less management overhead.

• How to use Cloud Integrated Storage to support the distributed enterprise

  Cloud-based or Cloud Integrated Storage (CIS) shifts the actual data storage away from the hardware to the cloud where it can be accessed by a new class of storage controller or cloud gateway.

• Druva relies on OpenStack for new endpoint data protection platform

  Druva chose to build the new private cloud edition of its inSync endpoint data protection using OpenStack because of its object storage functionality, but the increasingly popular cloud platform still needs to improve in some key areas, according to CEO Jaspreet Singh.

• EMC battles rogue backups

  With a new set of hardware and software releases, EMC is promising to simplify its customers' storage infrastructure by combining different types of operation into a single EMC system.

• DBX 2013: Photos from Dropbox's first-ever developer conference

  For a cloud storage provider, Dropbox puts on quite a show. On Tuesday it held its inaugural developer conference in San Francisco, and there was plenty of colorful activity to see.

• Dropbox adds new tools to make syncing smarter

  Dropbox is adding a suite of features to its file-hosting services to provide more syncing tools for app developers and make it easier for end users to access their data across devices.

• Nasuni's cool new feature: Manage worldwide data from a single screen

  Nasuni, which offers cloud integrated storage, has a nifty new feature that lets global companies manage all of their data from around the world on a single screen.

• Profiling unstrucutred data to streamline storage management

  New data profiling technology makes it possible for organizations to reclaim storage capacity, archive data with business value, delete aged and abandoned data with no business value, tier content to other classes of storage and even manage storage charge backs with reliable statistics.

• Dell combines faster and cheaper SSDs in one box, with automatic tiering

  Many enterprise storage systems include two or more types of hard disk drives, with data automatically moved between those two tiers of storage. The same concept has now been applied to two types of SSDs.